Invitations to the meeting were signed by Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner, chief of staff Reince Priebus, and billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley figure who came out openly early on in favor of Trump.

The relationship between Trump and Silicon Valley companies has been difficult with some senior tech executives openly backing his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the run-up to the presidential elections. The president-elect and tech companies also appear to have differing views on issues such as immigration, outsourcing abroad, clean energy, net neutrality, encryption, surveillance and on restoring lost manufacturing jobs in the U.S.

Trump, for example, was critical of Apple’s refusal to help the Department of Justice access information on the iPhone used by a San Bernardino, California, terrorist in an attack last December. “Boycott all Apple products until such time as Apple gives cellphone info to authorities regarding radical Islamic terrorist couple from Cal,” Trump tweeted in February. Apple had said that helping the FBI crack the phone would require it to develop a new version of the iOS operating system and weaken its security in the bargain.

The meeting on Wednesday could hence provide an opportunity for a rapprochement between the Trump transition team and key U.S. tech executives, though the president-elect may also use the opportunity to push his pet demands. Trump may try to get pledges from companies like Apple and others to make products locally and keep manufacturing jobs in the country, in deals similar to one he struck recently with Carrier. He may also try to get commitments from companies to do IT and product design work locally rather than in locations like India.